MANUFACTURING By Dorothy Crouch | Thursday, May 13, 2021
Promoting its mission to combat fabric waste, the textile recycling and reuse nonprofit
Fabscrap announced that it has secured partnerships with Philadelphia’s
URBN and Seattle-headquartered
Nordstrom, which includes major investments by the retailers. Initiatives include expanding from the New York City area and upgrading the company’s digital infrastructure. Fabscrap’s efforts include fabric sorting and redistribution of textile waste to divert these materials away from the landfill.
“This is such a great case study of an industry how an industry can self-correct, and we’re doing this in Philadelphia first, but it would be great to see a brand with headquarters in L.A. take on the same leadership,” said Fabscrap founder and Chief Executive Officer Jessica Schreiber. “We’re excited to see how the industry is investing in its own future in this way.”
The Surprisingly Plausible Theory that the Pyramids were Poured from Ancient Concrete
The Egyptian pyramids at Giza are among the most famous and storied monuments in the world. The oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world – and the only ones still standing – they have awed and inspired travellers, scholars, poets, and artists for thousand of years. Yet despite this timeless fascination, relatively little is known about who built the pyramids or why. Few records survive of the pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, and while the pyramids are assumed to be tombs, there is surprisingly little evidence of anyone actually being buried within them. Yet the greatest mystery of all is how the pyramids were actually built. The Great Pyramid of Khufu stands 146 metres tall, weighs 6 million tons, and is composed of nearly 2.3 million granite and limestone blocks weighing up to 80 tons each. Yet the structure is nearly perfectly level and square, the blocks so close-fitting tha
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Pa. suburbs signal a national ‘eds-and-meds’ realignment | Opinion
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
Joe Biden laid out his economic policy plan to help rebuild the middle class during a campaign stop at the Scranton Cultural Center on October 23, 2019 in Scranton. Getty Images
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By Charles McElwee
Located across the Schuylkill River from Reading, a vast city of rowhomes, the Berks County borough of Wyomissing, Pa., remains as it was intended over a century ago: the ideal suburb. Curving boulevards and tidy avenues, canopied by trees, feature beautiful housing amid parks and trails. Then, beyond Penn Avenue, sprawling before semi-detached houses, are the Knitting Mills – a monument to the community’s foresight.